Opinion

Our land of dreams has no help for pain

25 April 2021 - 00:00 By tony leon

It is probably incautious in these incendiary times to remind readers of an acclaimed poet from the mid-Victorian era. Danger acknowledged, Matthew Arnold's elegiac composition , on the loss of faith and certainty, seems unusually modern and fits right in with the clamorous background noise that characterises SA in 2021...

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